Improvement in child s kilt suits



.I. CRANE Ghilds Kilt-Suit.

Patented June 25,1878.

INVENTOR REM ATTORNEYS.

N. PETERS. FHQTOUTHOGRAPHER; WASHINGTON. D G.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISRAEL CRANE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO ANNA B. CRANE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT "IN CHILDS KILT SUITS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 205,176, dated June 25, 1878; application filed April 15, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISRAEL CRANE, of the city, county, and State of New York, have in vented a new and useful Improvement in Wearing Apparel, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a front view, showing my improvement and the method of using the same. Fig. 2 is a side sectional elevation of my improvement.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

This invention is more especially intended for use in connection with apparel for childrens wear, particularly for what are known in the trade as kilt suits but I do not limit the application of my improvement to any style of garments.

The object of my invention is to secure greater convenience in the use and handling of garments, as will be hereinafter shown and described.

The ordinary apparel for a child consists of an inner garment or waist, represented by B in the drawing, which is separately applied to and buttoned around the upper part of the body, knee-pants or skirt 0 being attached by buttons or other fastening to the waist B, and an outer garmentconsisting of a sleeved jacket, coat, or bodice, A, with a kilt. 'These garments are usually applied separately, and in the ready-made clothing trade, by reason of such separation, the waist B is generally omitted from the suit, and the purchaser is put to the delay and inconvenience of having the waist specially made up. In using such suits further inconvenience is occasioned by frequent loss or misplacing of the separate waist.

In carrying out my invention I overcome these objections by attaching the neck or shoulder parts of the waist B directly to the inner parts of the neck or shoulder parts of the kilt or outer garment A by a row of stitches, b, or other suitable fastening, as shown in the drawings.

At all other points except the neck or shoulder fastening b the waist B and the pants or skirt 0 are left entirely or substantially free from connection with the outer garment or kilt A. Thus all liability to misfit, strain, or tear the outer garment by reason of its connection with the waist is avoided, and the outer garment is made to fit with as much nicety as if it were detached and used in the ordinary manner. I

My improvement admits of the free movement of all the limbs of the wearer, and at the same time presents the advantages of having both garments firmly united, so that in the trade and in actual use they cannot be separated or misplaced, while the act of dressing and undressing is simplified and quickened, both garments being applied and removed together.

I do not claim the broad idea of making double garments; but

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a childs kilt suit, consisting of the coat A, waist B, and skirt or pants 0, the shoulders of the waist being attached to the shouldersof the coat directly, as shown and described.

ISRAEL CRANE.

Witnesses:

O. SEDGWIGK, J. H. SCARBOROUGH. 

